Eight Facts About Liberalism: Fact 8

Liberals can not tolerate and often seek to destroy those in opposition to them.

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There are many example of this but here are two current ones.

Since being nominated to be John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election, Sarah Palin has been attacked without mercy by liberals. They have not only attacked her but her entire family as well; including her down syndrome son. The reason is that she is seen as a serious contender for the GOP presidential nomination and a candidate that has a real chance of defeating Obama in 2012.  Simply put, liberals see her as a threat and so they seek to destroy her.

Without a doubt talk radio is a major force in opposition to Obama and his leftist policies. At first the liberal reaction was to bring back the so called fairness doctrine. The “fairness doctrine” requires a radio station to give free equal time to opposing views of those views expressed on the station deemed by the government as controversial. This requires so much time and expense that stations avoid any thing potentially controversial, such as conservative talk radio. Talk of the “fairness doctrine” immediately raised red flags and so liberals started talking about localism. Under localism the FCC would establish local comities populated by liberals that would be empowered to stop the renewal of radio station licenses that they felt was not acting in local public interest. The point is that both “fairness doctrine” and localism is that liberal what to silence their opposition on talk radio.

Eight Facts About Liberalism: Fact 7

Liberals never accept blame for the consequences of their actions.

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When liberal policies are proven not to work as advertised, liberals are never seen apologizing or trying to repeal the policy. Usually they just claim that more of the failed policy is need or that they need to take more of your money to fund it better. A prime example of this is in public education, where the more they fail the more money they demand.

A classic example of this is the fact that the Obama administration continues to blame Bush for state of the economy. Yes the recession started under bush but since Obama’s bailout package was passed it has gotten worst. Despite this Obama continues to blame Bush and does not accept any blame.

Eight Facts About Liberalism: Fact 6

Liberals seek to remove the consequences of irresponsible behavior usually at the expense of others.

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There are many examples but here are a few.

Welfare gives people an income without ever having to work at the expense of those that do work.

Government bailouts of companies protect companies with irresponsible policies, from bankruptcy at the expense of companies, and people who do behave responsibly and stay in business and keep their jobs.

The ultimate example is abortion, where to remove the consequences of premarital sex millions of human babies are murdered every year.

Eight Facts About Liberalism: Fact 5

Liberals seek to bring about their idealized view without regard for the harm done to others.

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There are numerous examples of this. The most blatant of these is abortion, which has caused the murder of millions of human babies. Whenever liberals talk about tax increases they never seem to consider whether or not people can afford the extra taxes.

Obama has been trying to get a cap and trade bill through the U.S. congress. It would raise taxes on energy to the point of driving jobs out of the U.S. during the worst recession since the Great Depression. During a time when a lot of people are already hurting, any body who has even the most basic knowledge of economics can tell that such a tax increase would make things worst, but the liberals who pushing this bill don’t seem to care about such things.

Many more examples could be offered but these points show that liberals don’t care how people are harmed by their policies.

Eight Facts About Liberalism: Fact 4

Liberals seek to bring about their idealized view without regard for what others want.

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Liberals simply do not care if other people want their idealized world and they are willing to force it down their throats if need be. Many of the liberal policies that exist in the U.S. are the result of law suits being brought by a few people to force unwanted change on a community.

Liberals have no problem with taking tax dollars from people to fund things  that those people consider morally wrong such as abortion. Those same people often need to spend more money to fight those things that they are forced to pay for with their taxes. Even worst liberals will raise  taxes forcing people to stop giving to those charities they would like to give to, to give more money to the organizations those charities are trying to fight.

Eight Facts About Liberalism: Fact 3

Liberals deal with problems by forcing change, usually through government, with no consideration of the causes of the problem. 

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I have chosen three examples of this fact. These are the economy, education, and health care. I chose these examples because virtually everyone agrees that they are problem areas.

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Education

When the public schools in a given area are not providing a sufficient education the liberal solution is to spend more money, without ever looking into what the public schools are doing wrong.  The proof that the problem is not a lack of money is existence of private schools that consistently provided a better education than public schools in the same area, while spending less per student.

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The Economy

The solution proposed by liberals for dealing with the current economic downturn has been to bailout large failing companies, without any concern for the policies and regulations that caused the problem to begin with.

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Health Care

Liberals have been pushing for socialized medicine (universal healthcare) for over 10 years. The excuse given is the expense of healthcare. Once again they are trying to force change by government dictate, without regard for why healthcare is so expensive.

One major factor in the cost of healthcare is the cost of malpractice insurance. In some cases the premiums exceed $100,000 a year, and yet there is no mention by President Obama or any other liberal politicians about dealing with the frivolous malpractice laws suits and the outrageously large settlements that cause the need for such huge premiums.

Another factor is the cost of getting new drugs on the market. These costs are incurred by having to deal with government regulation. Once again this issue is not even being addressed by the President or any one else supporting his plan.

The simple fact is that liberals do not talk by about why healthcare has gotten so expensive. They just insist that so called universal healthcare needs to be passed and passed before the 1000+ page bill can even be read.

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Conclusion

These are just three examples of areas where liberals try to force solutions to problems without considering why the problem exists.  There are many other examples. To see the truth of this fact all one has to do listen to what liberals say or rather what they don’t say.

Eight Facts About Liberalism: Fact 2

If there is any disagreement between the idealized view and reality, reality is considered to be at fault and in need of correction.

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There are policies that liberals repeatedly push and maintain even though history repeatedly proves them wrong. No place is this more evident than in tax policy.

Despite historical evidence to the contrary liberals always insist that tax increases will increase revenue. This is because their idealized view fails to recognize the fact that tax rates affect economic activity and that at some point tax revenues reach a peak. This is a case where their idealized view disagrees with reality, but yet they keep trying to make the idealized view work.

Eight Facts About Liberalism: Fact 1

Liberals have an idealized view of the way the world should be that has no bases in reality.

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The idealized world envisioned by liberals is basically socialistic. In its purest form, every member of the society would reap the benefits of that society equally.  The problem with this ideal society is that it goes against the fact that people are not equal in ability, drive, and many other factors.

This ideal society does not exist; however it is not for a lack of people trying it. This notion has been experimented with on several occasions and these experiments have always resulted in shortages of food and other resources. The main flaw in the theory is that some people quickly realize that they can be lazy and still get an equal portion of goods and so they stop working. Meanwhile, the naturally industrious quickly get tiered of their labor going to support the dregs, while being more industrious profits them nothing, and so they stop working.

The results are always the same because such a system encourages laziness and discourages productivity.  This occurs because whenever the productive are sacrificed for the benefit of the lazy, productivity decreases and laziness increases. This means that this idealized society is totally contrary to the reality of human nature.

Top Eight Facts About Liberalism

The following list consists of eight facts about liberalism that every one should know. You may call yourself a liberal without believing any of these but that does not change the fact that they are at the heart of what today is called liberalism. This list applies mainly to liberals as a group and the liberal elite, not necessarily the average person who calls them self a liberal. The liberal elite are found mainly in academics, news media and politics.

1. Liberals have an idealized view of the way the world should be that has no bases in reality.


2. If there is any disagreement between the idealized view and reality, reality is considered to be at fault and in need of correction.


3.  Liberals deal with problems by forcing change, usually through government, with no consideration of the causes of the problem.

4.  Liberals seek to bring about their idealized view without regard for what others want.
 

5.  Liberals seek to bring about their idealized view without regard to the harm done to others.


6.  Liberals seek to remove the consequences of irresponsible behavior usually at the expense of others.

7.  Liberals never accept blame for the consequences of their actions.


8.  Liberals can not tolerate and often seek to destroy those in opposition to them.

Each of the points in this list will be expanded on in future articles so if you have a comment on a particular point please wait for the article on that point. This article will be updated to include links to the expansion articles. So if you want to see the explanation articles book mark this one or go to the main page of this Blog